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F5 Cloud Failover Extension (Archived)
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RFE: GCP Batch API for moving routes, forwarding rules #12

Closed jtylershaw closed 4 years ago

jtylershaw commented 4 years ago

GCP has a batch API which can be used to modify objects within GCP. If a customer has a large number of forwarding rules the failover time is high. A batch process would reduce the amount of time it takes for a failover to happen.

This blog post (https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/discontinuing-support-for-json-rpc-and.html) which references an API endpoint that will be decommissioned in favor of more specific APIs talks about the batch process.

The specific API endpoint for forwarding Rules is this: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/forwardingRules/setTarget

shyawnkarim commented 4 years ago

Thank you for reaching out to us with this idea. We have looked into this and have come to the conclusion that their batch API might speed up failover times.

cah-roger-bauer commented 4 years ago

Any word on this? Is this something that is actively being pursued? Failover times in the minutes are not an acceptable solution. We have a working HA solution via the GTM but its cumbersome to manage and dont not provide HA for APM. We really need a solution that fails over quickly.

shyawnkarim commented 4 years ago

We looked into implementing the GCP batch API but ended up not using it. Using the batch API does not materially make a difference with failover times, like we originally thought it might.

Since looking at this, a new solution has been presented to us from GCP engineering. This new method will hopefully be available with our next release. Internal ID AUTOSDK-204.